Word: robbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While a good deal of talk about Lyndon Johnson as a presidential candidate was spreading across the South, the more likely possibility is that he will turn out to be a kingmaker. A heart attack victim, Lyndon Johnson as candidate would rob the Democrats of an issue they would otherwise use against Dwight Eisenhower. But as a skilled political maneuverer marching into Chicago with a considerable bloc of delegates behind him, he could be in a strong position to affect the nomination...
...sure, in the thorny matter of getting a road built, it is Mister Johnson who finds the answer-but in so un-British a fashion as to get sacked. Then, in a moment of drunken confusion, he inadvertently kills a storekeeper he is trying to rob, and mercy can find no legal way to season justice...
...French army. The French believe he transmits his orders by radio to fighters in the Aures and Kabylie Mountains. Political chief for Algeria is 43-year-old Mohammed Khidir, 43, onetime French Deputy who got disgusted in 1946 and went underground, emerging only long enough to help Ben Bella rob the Oran post office of 3,000,000 francs. In both Morocco and Tunisia, Cairo's conspirators have been set back by the victory of the moderates, whom they seem to resent as bitterly as they do the French. Morocco's Cairo leader is Allal el Fassi, chief...
...Rob MacDonald has written a fairly competent extended metaphor comparing the sea to a woman. He rather successfully captures both the rise and fall of the swells and their dark, light-drowing power. There is a strong suggestion of death wish and a good bit of alliteration. One line--"While limbs loll out long like a lover"--seems to have little meaning within the context of the poem, but the image is satisfying, and it trips off the tongue nicely. Fred Seidel's poem about death is filled with images. It is not as obscure as it might have been...
Know Thyself. In Greensboro, N.C., Herman Lamm, serving a 15-year prison term for robbing a bank, appealed to have his case reopened on grounds of insanity, announced that he had worn a work shirt with his employer's name and address on it during the holdup, claimed that "this is not compatible to the action of a sane person who is about to rob a bank...